The Sun. — London, England, 1810-03-31 00:00:00

had I to clirry be that, mode which be had deemed the less , difficult, ' And yet , • Ministers .had been lavisb,it4 their ienenrniumsoe the kapidity of the movements cif the, rMv. Indeed all parties in -the I - easiness .appeared . tiptoe to praise one another:. - When was ra. pidhe to be discovered? Every, fishing towntin waY had been invested by tke man who went to take Antwerp by a comp-de-main ; and at length 40,000, 'British troops, were stopp!zd by a ditch -at • Middle-, t)tirgh. So - much for • the Army.—Then for the. Navy. On the arrival of the .Marquis of Huntley's dt...ision at Cadsand, the occUpation of which wa s , coitsilered an' indispensable prelimmary,• it was fotiud that . the boats of the squadron-were insuffi den% to convey an adequate_force -on shore. , It -was true Niat the - Admiral attributed the non-occupation )1 1 ;s indispensable preliminary to the hackies: of the . 'r;' 1)01 it , was ako true that ComModore Owen, in a letter written on the same. day, said, . 'that the weather was very fine, - adding, that the enemy's- force was greater than anticipated. What 'ight be the cause be could not divine, but certain. it was that the - plan of occupying. Cadsand was . aban 'cloned. When the Expedition. proceeded:to Flush ing, they's commenced by battering the town at a great - - distance. - And behce it was curious to remark - that with the gheatest inhumanity they injured the people . whore • they professed 'they came to deliver, bdt that *hen they got `pos;- session of e place, their hunrane fit seized them "and instead of - lodging the British soldiers in good and comfortable quarters, they placed them in the most unfit and unwholesome situations. This know ledge and 'the ignorance, the huManity and thein humanity of those who planned and those who con-. ducted this ill-starred enterprise, producei :dike the 'Most disastrous consequences. Sir Home Popham Was the only pers6n (except a pilot) who•was pie , smiled to be acquainted .with the navigation. Hay . - ing T failed in securing ,iduch had been conceived an indispensable - prehmelary to .the oreration, the Commindete of the .L!ixpedi:ion• were highly de lighted *all the skill- and facility with which it was Carried through, the Veer Gat, and Sir Hoine,-Pop h_eit was sent to find a way to Southßeveland in a -liretilon - in which it was -just - as -rational : to sup pose.a way would found as 'it would be toima -gine ciat a way would be found to Kensington over Weste,ins:er Bridge. Having got. to Bathz, they fund themselves completely unintormed of the state of. Antwerp ; they gad no plan; of the Place ; and on the 25th the Cotninandea i n chi e f . callecl Council of War, by which any further proce e di ng was declared .uttadYisable Was it possible that any one Could say that such a transattioh did not demand . the,severest punishment of those whose . consummates •ignorance so wasted -the blood of the .conntry ? It tnight be urged against hin t that h e s p o k e w i t h •waririth on this sithjeet. He owned . that he did • tg.ieak with warmth ; for he felt With warmth upon it. Fle felt that• all .those who .participated iii the enterprize stood before the Public as criminals ; not only -the Administration, who with such a.:know-- ledge(' ignorance planned it, but the General and .the Admiral Who wit h such acknowledged ignorance:: underthok to carry it inte.execution. On the part • which was the most Llpottant of all these consi derations,' be would hot at presytit say much, be cause it would lin m a subjed of separate dismission ; be meant the conduet of the Medical Department of the Expedition, - and the calamitous fate of those brave men who were sacrificed to the ignorance of tine Medical Board. 'Nothioghad.ever more shock 7 ed his rifind than the indifference—an indifference -, amounting almost to sportiveness—in which the Noble-Lord had treated this part of the sehjeCt. It was to have been expeded. that a man who had on Ins -head the deaths of . thousands would have risen in that House with at least something :like com pundion ; that he would not haVe spoken of ca latnity as if it had been triumph ; that he .have been- ashamed to mention the names ; Of .Chatbam and Wolfe, and 'Nelson and St. Vincent—men who had achieved for their Country such important services, and with 'whom ion' omit. able c›- [ proof of for 1 1 0' avelive 6 a open' 66 9,d of so O'ong of tile an d tbat fort .('• getting aintaiWeq robabilitY - any thing . like an association • with the N , . , ble Lord - was one Of the most disgusting ideas that his mind could entertain. It was scarcely to be credited, it was a truth ',too painful to be easily _believed, but he had been informed on good autho-' iity, that thi4 miserable Expedition cost th.3country, even by the official returns, - which were no doubt tht reverse of being exaggerated, three times the number ermen that . had lallen in all the glorious naval victories that had been achieved from the commencement of the war down to the' present moment. But this was nothing to the Noble Lord. talked'as fatniliarly of the death of brave men as it' he were speaking of the drowning of puppy-dogs. The Right Hon. Gentleman had behaved with ; somewhat more propriety on this point. He had not turned the. sacrifices of the country into mockery ; but the Right Hon. Gentleman, in the course of his -argnment,•had • attributed the failure, not to the miseonduCt of Ministers, but_ to an intrinsic cause— to the despotism of Buonaparte. He ha I stated that A tree Government was not calculated to.meet on - verirtal terms the efforts of an absolute one. He bad -thought that Right Hon. Gentleman too much at-. tiched to Greek and Roman learning to utter such.a .• He had always' understood that to the -4reedom of the Romans Rome owed her power; and nth t the energy which liberty produced in the Greek compen , ated for their inferiority to their -- e:riemies,in point of numbers. He had always un stti too, that to-the courage which British in -dependence and freedom had inspired, this coun ',try had hitherto owed its seccrity; It was a new -and m6riiiying doctrine, that the liberty of England Was the ciluse of her want of military success. Such i docttine . produced in his, mind, as' well as the -greatest surprise, the greatest alarm ; for if it were once established; the liberties of Englishmen would be more in danger than ever. To the Resolu 'liens before the House he . should unquestionably .agree, although 'they did not go to the length to 'which he thought- they ought to go, namely, im peachment; The projedors of the. Expedition, 'ought to be impeached, and the Commanders of it trkd by Court's - As to:the effect which th e discussion might have in displacing the pre sent Miniters, ho, repeated his former opinions. of - fteunimpot tance of such an event, w the country. •\1; t : , ;.I:e,l:,tif , its of public benefit by 7t change-Of v tt a ur a eh:111 ; e of measures,, without re t,! tiinhe• great constitutional principles, by from ‘A hi, h ,the country had cheli!led, he to be - absolutely deltisive. Ile 'had no doubt that the child of folly and imbeCility on which the .Idouce were now' called - upon to pronounce, .oived :its origin to the same cause as. that which gave birth to all the calamities which, the conotry fra:l so brigand so patiently sAtfered. To a fair represen tation of the people, and. to nothing short of that must the. Country loOk for redress. .This-Expedi tion, and such expeditions as tids, -were , th. off_ spring of, the craft. of Ministers working on the Abandoned.prostilution which resulted from an in-. efficient representation of the•people. -If a ci a t intly groaned und er tyranny, at mattered - little whether it was under the .tyranny.of corruption, or under the iron : hand of a foreign despot. Nothing - wbuld satisfy the Public but-an iinpeadiment.of. and Courts Martial no the Commanders; na , vtiand military.. Of such an -Expedition it was impossible to speak with temper. Men were sent to death in a way which in a private place 'would be called murder. The Expedition seemed .to have-been de tained for the. fatal disease by which it was visited;. and the patience of British soldiers under suffering called still - more strongly for retribution. ' - Mr. BATHURST began by observing, that the Hon. Baronet had spoke n o f: t h e fe ee d orn of our cient States -as having enabled them' to cope with more pciwerfOl despotism. Did the lion. Baronet reColleal another qiiality belonging . to tho:se States by which they were eventually subjogwei to the oppressor ? What was\this but the degeneraCy of that liberty , into 'licentiousness, and the presence of individuals never wanting in any country to persuade the pe o pl e t h at t h ey might enjoy more than their stationsqualitied them to enjoy ? . It was this'spirit which-reduced Greece to the power of the Xacedoniati Monarch ; and by the help of factious citizens his rival was deiivered Into, the hands of a Military despoticane:—With resped to the subject before the House he should occupy but few mo. views of t; ei , attention. He conceived that the Noble• Lore and the Rieht Hop. Gentleman had not placed the question on quite fair grounds. They hao stated it as a dilemma, teat being nude an en - gagement to an• ally, and 'baring large dispose. able force at their command, it was incumbent them to employ it m the reliet of their ally, although there-were no p:• , .• ts of cop ... ttct by Which it could be. rendered eminently serviceable, He _knew of no claims Of pal or jastite which required such a mea sure., It:was to be regretted that the habits of the• House did not qualify them to enter minutely into military operations, although it was indispensable that they should carefully watch over them.- The na ture of the Constitution required such a check upon Government. The first point of view in which he would ,coaider the expedition was. *as an intended 1 diversiou. How was it Skto operate ? The limited time of'theeiapedition itself .was presumptive against its probable extent as a , diversion. . The expectation ought to have - been, that the force brought against it would to thecolle4led perthal cut foreeof he country, and not any returning forc . (.. from the Danube. -Nor could the expedition be defeoded by a reference to the intentions of former Governments, for those inten-; tiops were confined to an_ attack on Flushing. An. att.tek on Flushing alone might have been made by a cotip-deernain,. with small expence, with little risk, and with treat probability of. sUccess. • It Was indis-- pensable thai tnose. ;alto_ planned so great an enter prize, should be possessed of full information re specting :tie object against whicli a it was to be di rected. The E pedit ion failed for want of i n forma .tion,with this further feature, that Government could not produce a single naval dr Militery authority in support of their plan; for certai n ly a proposition to military men, on suppositious grounds to in stitute a comparison between two'plans, and a pre ference given by them to the one plan over the other, could, by no means be called an opinion .or .an authot ity. The 'Noble LOrd had ..argued, that as the ulterior objea' Of the Expedion a Was never attempted, the policy of it could not be canvas sed. This lie denied. ThOsecousulted had spoken .of - the Expedition as affording little prosped. of success. The Ailiniral 'Who was to command, when he hac', expressed - himself to that effect, was told to go on and he would do very well. There never was a case in wllich, a conjoint consultation of services . _was more necessary. The plan. was :deficient ; the expedition could, indeed, hardy be said to have . any plan a t a ll. The lion. Gentlem an - then tools .a comprehensive view of the operations of the armathent, from which he inferred the, want of - a proper combination for the attainment. of the ob ject in view, which, he wa4 olopinion, could hardly be gained under ciicumstancesahe most favourable. He then adverted to what had been •said respecting the West I n di a I s l ae d s, wh i ch he contended was no justification of - the conduce of Government in eX 7 posing' an army to the ravages of,the-climate at Wal cheren. The question was, did .the Expedition ap pear, justifiable,. or did it call for the censure of the House ? On that the country e.xpeded them to de cide.He might have to say sorriethiog more on the second question, as be understood an amendment was to be mo v ed, thoegh_he hardly comprehended the nature . of it, as it seemed .to him that if the, plea set up for the retention of Waleheren was done away, there was •no groutid on which an•ameini.- mem could possibly stand_ • • PEELE defended Ministers in a very able speech. He thought it unnecessary to state the grounds on which the EXpedition had been sent,: as he•considered it established thatat_the time the plan was formed, there' existed the tair:st prospects . of success.. It had been laid down as an aximit by an Hon. Member opposite, •that England should - have nothing - to do with Continental operations, but in cases where success was hardly doubtful. Where we • deviated from the line o f con d uct di ctated by sell deteoce,. the dbjects . in .view :should certainly be great. But were they not great iti the present instance, be • would ask ? 'He thought he. Might confidently ask the country, if :at a time when the efforts of France to her navy were, so immense, it was the duty of England to remain quiet; If she,. While the influence of France sPread far and wide around, should think herself happy in not being included among the sufferers; and glad to be safe herself, view with apathy the sot:IL augation of others ? • The expedition, had 'hot been undertaken in consequence of •the Austrian war. The project 1)41 been, in conteMplation for years. Were we to give -up our p l ans b ecause Austria went to war v. ith _France'? 7 He should rather 'think the contrary. With respeet hat had been said as' to direct co-operation,. hr.: would -ask , if our interests were. so ideutitioti with those of Austria, that we l '• should enaeloy 40,000 men in her service e —atay, th ee • • however, undertake th e E x p e di t i on place th em cie - ne "e te l y at Ita t'dis pateti W ide'phi- merit not, without a concepti in that it would be attended ;uing aft objeal (ot oar own, e e had: not •IloaVeer, with risks and losses, but they never calculated upon a hem unmindfel of her - inter:a:ea, it as a last 'stake. -Th e y were prepared for all the [We• regret vley•inuch that - taaeare from hazards of war, Lei. they certainly did not expect the le age`; of the debate, • - to is this speech in de- : the raseiges Of die ase to such an . eaten( e and the tadeit was replete with argnee nt and elocetebee, and yes he ria,i no d'sl.lbt would have been complete appeared to - attatel the atinairatfeh af both sides of . 1y overcome, if were not for the prOaress of the House. -We can only say that MI-. P. proved in ahe he latter. When GentleM •!n dwelt :so much , strongest manner the policy of the expedition, and upon - the great disastees of -.Lis Expedition, 1 - ,e .completely justified• Ministers for-the retention of Walchere n .] ' would beg it t o b e recollected, that no m ili tary • fail - pre had occurred in the whole course of Mr. - Wits:lmam spoke at length ` in support of the it hat in fact nothing hid taken place which - could Resolutions. ' • a • : be said ro recioendaolhe diicredit of the country: - The Cuaxcret.ott of the EX df-IEaU 611 said, he 'a But - the tone in which all the Gentlemen on the regretted extremely that in the present exhausted other side spoke of this event, betrayed the characa 'state 'of the House, of the argwnent, and of him, ter of their oaposition. A Right Hon. Gentleman self, he - felt'it his duty to enter at ally length upon hadatidathat wind and weather torteed part of the but he must be allowed to say, t h at w i n d adiscussiotta'in which-they had ebeen engaged so Plan ; But many successive night Sand weather formed I , ,art of tie f a il ur e, o f w hi c h nights:, he conceived that he . : should be - watiting iu rea'ea both to the House and .. they were a treat cause; 'He was aware that eo . hi,tiself, if he did not offer his sentiments upon aft - 1 - loeOurable Officer in his eye - (Sir Hi.nue Pop the occasion. The Geettlemen, particularly . the . ham), Ii coinnrunicated his opinion, that onies Right Honourable Gentleman' who spoke list, bad the expeqition, sailed within a cartain period, adverse indulged his wit upon iota occasion ; indeed they winds must be expeeled that it was to be retnema had througliout the whole debate turned their tta- bered,athat according . to the evid e n ce o f Ad m i rals 'gecly into farc e; b u t w h atever .tale . nt and pleasantry Strachan atid . Keates the wra:her they had displajed, he never in his life was engaged i favourable e ind to that stateavas attributable the dif. _it) an argument in will:61,11e felt less diffiCulty; he ficulty of inir debarkation. - Why then, :0 this cir' never rose upon any oceasiona n which he felt thdt. rcutnstance, which ~c.casioned suchtierangement and there was less in the argument of his vpponehts. ' i delayin the,condttet of :the expedition._ . that be shouldwish to .remove, otaless in tee ar g il _ could not b e pronounced any Hart y. , Buutt it ova: merit of has fiends that wialical sepaly,. "1: he • Said, !Ministers had no' n val ikutitority fur the - ftight Honourable Greteinan (Mr. Witetharn) sect f practicability of their project. That, however, this debate had a;io , l upon his :ti ii priOe;ple ; he could not . he m•entlined bv, arty of those who took .always thought that ity going the ta; - ttteit Ns.s%)Y about, the 't.t(e.foie qt lucking at the ,\-Ii alias of the Ad. •be should rind the. nearest way .He had ; miraltY. But the mils±ary opintens were urged argued that the poli.e of thiS Eapeition was snce, 'against us. Let it•ho.,ever be observed, that the that even success would not le-aye justified: it. if opinion of COodel Gordon, for. instance,' which the Right Hon.. Gent, had prot-ed that t' ,position:, • had been so much: dwelt 'aeon, referred ;tiny to lie weut! indeed have- prove:l much ; but he mel t •. the dan ger e o whia) our army w ou ld be. expvaed 'great consolation from the adieision which tie ti id :, or. its retreat. Neat,. it w.;s calculated,, that our -afterwards made, Cita; in ,that oetieon tie nett. - 1 army waeulal reachßatitz.on the ad of e aueuit, and that he should hate stood alone. He believe,:*, i t f) aI se late as the f t th, the ena rn y had deed,• there, were fiAv. riCE'tbo,:it or utiplejuate;:d bur aleogether in Ant atarp,l3,eigeafrop-Zoom,' men who would joie in •'such an oeieion. The Cadsaed, :Ind all the ktdjeirtiegeouotry. What then a had our troops to aeereeend in their retreat frem ()hied - of this - Expedition - e - as net, as had bee n asserted, niereiy to gait , a little popularity, or . Ant -coif, hq their object beeeaCcempli:.hed within to take ; a, few ship, no, objects were the tirno, in tli Manner expected ?A; to-the doubt much larger' and much eigher—there e COI - meet . - expressed by hia:Right Hon. Frienti (Mi. Bathurst) ed won tha vital interest; of this ceantry ; and be respe.eting the - plitA intended to be pursued, he re begged to assure. the House, that att regretted mor e , fell-d him tg'thf7 iirCid,:tlet: of Sir Howe Pophatri and infinitely . inore'e . that he had been, from cirearn- - Lord Castlereaele from - which it appeared, that ;ha Stances, under t he•neceisity of giving' up so vaaara- 1 resolution 'ae.,s to on to Bet 12 7 a; soots as a footing ble an -acquisition j a g t h e f s i an d of Walehereo; - •' vas secured iii 'Wil,:heren. That the:fleet:had not at ban that he 'should now be 'charged by iris polio once gone up the s,ll&d .t, Was Owing t o tae saint;cal adversaries with . ha v i ng un d erta k en an Expedi- cause whief.prevented the landing of o u r force al Cad tion for an objeat importance. He c o nfes se d e sand Ow the 30th 'of August a vizetite s: ate of the wea it was withrauch difficulty that he retrainedfrom theta It it were not fortlicSe lowed .neats, for wfiicit expressing his - ast6nishineet. when he heard the 1' it'coUld - not surely. be meant to in,:ke Alinktrs re s . Manner in which the Right Hon. Gentleman talk- I Ponsible, he inliniaiued that our fleet- and army ed of'the failure of the present testers; lie was ! would have reached B ehr,, as soon as Sir John Hope; astonished 'When he heart! that ILglit Hon. Gentle- namely, by the 3d of August, and it ao, they could man contend that the faileet of an Expedition was have arn•sed before Antt.verp by the 4th and sth, a proof of the incapacity at those who planned he. : - 'svlien it was clear from the evideaceethere cc a s no this was indeed a strange assertion: Irvin oee ut lae au- etleqUate force there 'for its defence. The nib:ire thorn of the Expedition to Eeypt, to the Dard In e; leS, alien of iilig greAt.bbjea was ascri bable to cau se s and to Buenos Ayres, aed liotn the G , eutlemai: over which Ministers had do centroul, ct liit h aeleed he supposed was to be the War Mittister of - this -;* they could tint reasorial:ly-apprellend. Therefore, h l *. Country, if the pres e e t lalin- : iters• could. be re ; sited al theeobse.rvation Wan the oillersiX . je. .e, that all „. , , . .„ .. . • . moved. • . with re3peot to the peat (:nation on the ; circumstances were, required to ne s ta , ourabl e , in policy of the Expediiion, the Hon, Genf'lee tee nit' . 0.t.2:- to' insure the - arrival •of •our twee in due the - other side of the House seem to bove lei:A aute,f. thee at With z, he would nuint'ain thaCtinfavourable their consideration the immense means w tech Buo- creunistauces alone prey .11.eii their arri many Cate. • naparte was preparing at .A.taserp, for the con- did main. whet followed the evict rice, would, be was struetion of a fleet, • and the progress hehad already ", pet:shaded, adillit that if our Puree had reached Ant made in that object; - even: his Right Hon. Friend werp, by the - 4th or sth Angust, no army would (Mr. Brugge) seemed to have overlooked that. con- have been -, torttied there to !resist tee n Atenalob sideration. 'altog e th e r: His Right Hon, Friend ject of the Expeditien.. This, however, was an seemed to .. thiek that the deStru'ettoll of the Basin ..admissiow.which he he did trot expect from the 'of Flushing was - not an. 'objedt 7 ofeso Mace ltd. Gentlethen on the side of the House. Those portance as had been represented, but upon this Gentleen, .on this occasion; were seeking their ! point he begged. to refer his Right Him, Friend, and -own objeee :They were, anxious to get two the the House to the authorities of Lord Nelson,'of Sir . pl;:ces occupied by hi ms elf an d hi s colleagues. No Heine Popham, and of Commodore OWen, who a ll doubt they thought it 'foe the benefit of the court ! concurred in the very . great importanee of that ob- try to do so, and he gave them credit for their sjn- jea. In. faa, that was the opinion of all' Naval ,cerq,. Now, he begged.to- take credit for equal men, and had beta the opinion of all Adininistra-. sincerity, in thMking it fur the betteflt 'of the wen-, tions antecedent to the present. ButTnoW that the try to keep them Out. (Hear, hear, /ear, on the ; value of Flushing was intiiliCtly increased by the OpPosition . B enches.) Was he to infer from that •growing naval poker of the enemy at Antwerp, there - cheer that his' sincerity Was questioned ? If so, there . could not, h e was sure , id t h e m i nd o f any rational was a want . of reciprocity, and those. Gentlemen man, - exist a more im portant objeot. He O.'ji eon- were not willing La allow to othersthat credit which vinced that it was one which 'Weald have jus- i they claimed :to themselves. But whet, he would titled greater - risks' and ! greater expence "nai l beg the Hause to retlect e did thoSe Gentlemen look tbr by - the ReSolUti ons Under discussion ?---.they had been incurred upon t hi s Occ a s i on, It was nut : with a view merely.to the .destruelion of the ten dr ' looked for the. .punishment of an' Adinieistration eleven sail of the flue actually afloat in t ee :. which had sought a practicable objeet by competent :' tneaes, because that obj e ct h a d failed th rough causes • Scheldt, th a t ti ne E x e ed i t i o n' waS Undertaken, but ! i against which it was irtipoSsible tor-adnil e ist r a t i on in order to destr o y that arsetial which fu rn i s h e d facilitieS for the preparation'of a for t nid a ble fl ee t , in to provide. But lie trusted th e H ous e W adi by the : 'adoption of the amendment,' whi c h conta i ne d a fair, a quarter m ost d ang e rous to the safety of this-coun character of fitly prOceeding, di sconcer t the prospects Ary. But indepe n d ent l y o f a il sol i c i tude for our : clot} interests; the Scheldt was, lie maintained, the ! of those Oettlienlene .. best point that,. under all the circumstances of the Mr. P.ERCEVAL then read; the'Amendment which case, could be selected for the common pUrpose of ' had been proposed by Oen. Cranford, whiCit he con-: our Allies. It had been said that, our army would, . tenitedcomaineda fairdescription of thegroundsof the have'been better disposed of if sent to Spain. But , expedition, But the Right h-lon. Gentleman whO had' :.,IW begged Gelitleibbn to consider how unwise it ; preceded him had referred to the Cop en h ae e n ex : wouldbave turned o u t t o sen d an ' a d d i t i onal force. pedition, and had described it a lis to Lard Wellingt on ,. w h o found. it so difficult to :to this country, and had said as , . that asting n oe d of grace the provide any supply fOe even the toree which he had. consequences of that :expedition ' !woad have been In fact, any additional force, in his circuinst tildes, ' that we should have had littlish sailors te contend instead of being serviceable; would have rather in against at P‘ : mtwerp. With respect to that Ext)orli :. . -• Crease& his ettibarasStnenks. There was, however, Lion ; he bk.ggea to say; that it was one evfecli ,Gol. ahother reason whyrail army . could not have bee n • vern ment lad n e t engaged in from choice ; it wa s i sent to--zny of the points, .which Getitlemen 4 the imposed upon them by the imperious necessity of other side rtecornmendei, and that was the made- the case i. and with reSpOCt toethe circumstance of quacy of .. our means, =as 'appeared from the papers our hat ins Danish sailors to contend against; Gen on the table,. to defray th e ex p en i ces o f any l ength-- ! tleinen, he Was s u r d , wou ld not d eny that if that ened service. - 'ln feet, - the country could • dot aftbrd ,expedition-had not taken place, we should not Only it, and no other choice remained th an to ta k e the have tneiDaniii'fesaders but the Da n i s h fl eet to fit direction objected ,to, anct in which, unfixtunately,' against.. .1.1:;:- nii , .v came to the consideration of a out - efforts:had been so unavailing. But let it the very important branch of this 'case, he meant the considered, that, although w e c ou ld ach i eve nothing ' conduct - of Mini s ter s i n not abandoning. Waleh eren in' the , way of a diversion i n fa vOur pf Austria,which ! as soon .as tine ulterior object of the exp e di t i on was was:one•of the objects of the Etpedition, yetthat, found to be unattaamble. • Upon t hi s .p art of the from the 'state of the war, a' diVe rs i o h was created case more feeting had•naturally been excited than nn savour of ; the other object of that Expedition, : upun any other. :No man could speak of it, no man our own national object' :being rendered more at- could think of the loss of valuable lives, without the tainable by the occupation.: which Austzia gave to - deepst regret. He could not suppose, however,' the tr,Ops of the ene m y. This he observed, mere- that t boSewho bad declaimed loudest upon this sub , ly to strew that existing circumstances were not so ju 4 '.i, really feli'more upon it that} has Majesty's Mi-. unfavourable •,o the. Expedition as the Gentlemeo so nist.:es. ' Party' opposition could hardly be. C.:cried to earnestly contended, .That this latter object-. was, such a length' as to induce Gentlemen to.believe , :at. practicable, - ..5.a5,,. he ni entained, apparent,. from the feeitngS of regret on one side Of the House were the ev,idence; and that the menus !were sufficient, more acute than they were on the Other. But it could not, he thought, be questioned. -Govern- ' was one thing to regret the loss of lives, and another